AUGUSTA, Maine — It didn’t take long: Travelers are mugging it up for photos in front of a life-sized plastic moose erected at a service plaza along Interstate 295 in Maine.
The 9-foot statue went up Thursday in West Gardiner, not far from a smaller black bear statue.
The Kennebec Journal in Augusta says the statues are on loan from Adrian Brochu, of Madison, who offered them to the Maine Turnpike after interim executive director Peter Mills, a friend, admired them.
Mills gladly accepted. He wants a moose at rest plazas to show travelers they’re in Maine.
Mills says the master plan is to turn the service plazas into welcoming centers for the state. A moose has also been set up at Kennebunk.